Article:
Retroverser Fortschritt. Rückkehr, Konversion und sozialer Wandel

Abstract

Beginning with the trend toward first-person narrative perspectives in contemporary literature, this article examines the ways in which crisis-ridden presences are narrated in narratives of return. The focus is on how conversion narratives articulate a collectively shared experience of social change. Autosociobiographical novels open with a threshold narrative that follows the logic and structure of classic conversion narratives. The tripartite narrative structure of autobiographical conversion narratives, in which a turning point separates the life course into a wrong life before conversion and a right one after conversion, is used in the novels as a time-diagnostic tool to render a diffuse social threshold state representable.

Download icon

Published in:

Preferred Citation
BibTex
Amlinger, Carolin: Retroverser Fortschritt. Rückkehr, Konversion und sozialer Wandel. In: Kulturwissenschaftliche Zeitschrift, Jg. (2023), Nr. 2, S. 64-84. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/23172.
@ARTICLE{Amlinger2023,
 author = {Amlinger, Carolin},
 title = {Retroverser Fortschritt. Rückkehr, Konversion und sozialer Wandel},
 year = 2023,
 doi = "\url{http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/23172}",
 address = {Hamburg},
 journal = {Kulturwissenschaftliche Zeitschrift},
 number = 2,
 pages = {64--84},
}
license icon

As long as there is no further specification, the item is under the following license: Creative Commons - Namensnennung - Weitergabe unter gleichen Bedingungen